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WATCH: Rep. King Says NYPD Doesn't Racially Profile Muslims

Posted 05.14.2012

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Representative Peter King (R-NY) said Monday during an appearance on CNN's Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien that "there is no racial profiling" by ...

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Peter King Chooses Demagoguery in Targeting Muslim-Americans

Michael J. Wilson | Posted 04.29.2012

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Throughout our history, unpopular groups have been targeted for the public's wrath in difficult times. Demagogues like King have been only too anxious to steer and cheer on this wrath.

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Rep. Peter King Plans To Keep Investigating Muslim 'Radicalization' In 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 02.09.2012

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The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee signaled Thursday he intends to keep investigating the American Muslim community despite a repor...

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Woman Charged With Sending Pig's Foot To Congressman Killed By Police

Posted 12.28.2011

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An Atlanta woman who allegedly mailed threats to lawmakers was shot and killed by police during an altercation on Christmas Day. Jameela Barnette, ...

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Rep. Peter King Announces Third Islamic Radicalization Hearing Will Happen Next Week

The Huffington Post | Posted 09.18.2011

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Peter King, the controversial Republican congressman from New York who chairs the House Committee on Homeland Security, announced Tuesday that he will...

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"See Something, Say Something" And Impunity for Profiling

Feisal G. Mohamed | Posted 08.29.2011

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The "See Something, Say Something Act" seeks to amend the Homeland Security Act so that any person who files a report in "good faith" will be immune from civil suit. We should be skeptical of any act extending immunity from the law.

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Peter King Holding Second In Sequence Of Hearings On Islamic Radicalization

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 08.15.2011

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WASHINGTON — A congressional inquiry into the threat of Islamic radicalization in U.S. prisons quickly devolved Wednesday into a debate about po...

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GOP Rep Peter King: HIgh-Ranking Feds Squashed Muslim Group Terror Case

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 06.18.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The House Homeland Security Committee chairman is demanding to know why the Justice Department squashed a prosecution of Islamic advocac...

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Severed Pig's Foot Mailed To Rep. Pete King

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 06.04.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) learned Monday that someone had mailed him a bloody, severed pig's foot, a person close to the Congressman said...

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Peter King Blasts Senate's Muslim Civil Rights Hearings

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.29.2011

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A few weeks after holding his own controversial hearings on the threat of the radicalization of American Muslims, Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) is blasting...

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Conservative Republicans and Islam: A New Crusade for Votes and Funds

John L. Esposito | Posted 05.25.2011

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Recent hearings of Rep. Peter T. King (R-NY) on the radicalization of American Muslims represent a growing campaign to discredit Muslims, witnessed mo...

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"The King Has No Clothes"

Dean Obeidallah | Posted 05.25.2011

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So what was missing from Rep. Kings hearings? A little thing I like to call: Facts.

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Both Sides Now w/ Huffington and Matalin: Cuts vs. Kids, Muslim McCarthyism, Walker's Pyrrhic Win

HuffPost Radio | Posted 05.25.2011

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Arianna and Mary debate whether the House GOP has declared a "war on women"; Walker's win will boomerang; and we should attack Gaddafi. But there's consensus on sisterhood after Mean Girls.

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King Not Fit to Lead

James Zogby | Posted 05.25.2011

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King's hearings weren't even a good example of "McCarthyism." They were a suborning of an important committee's resources to serve the chairman's obsession with America's Muslims.

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Partnerships, Not Islamophobia, Must Dictate US Counterterrorism Policy

Deborah Ramirez | Posted 05.25.2011

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Law enforcement must move past the Islamophobic rhetoric that seems to dominate US counterterrorism discourse bring Muslim communities into the fold to help in the effort.

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Peter King's Hearings Hurt Our Troops

Ashwin Madia | Posted 05.25.2011

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The hearings are a political show to play to the fringe base, not a real attempt to better our security. And, unfortunately, it comes at the expense of our troops fighting overseas.

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King Hearings & Anti-Muslim Hate: A Citizen's Call to Action

Farhana Khera | Posted 05.25.2011

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With the bigoted King hearings, many courageous Americans have begun to push back against efforts to target the entire American Muslim community. They include Christian clergy, law enforcement officials and civil rights leaders.

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Keith Ellison Tears Up At Hearing On Muslim-American 'Radicalization' (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), the first Muslim-American elected to Congress, broke into tears Thursday during a hearing investigating po...

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Rep. King, Hold Hearings on FBI's Illegal Surveillance of Muslims

Hussam Ayloush | Posted 05.25.2011

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Little congressional attention is given to the fact that the Muslim community's good faith gestures toward cooperation and trust-building have been met with sweeping FBI fishing expeditions.

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Ranking Panel Democrat Suggests Muslim Hearings May Inspire Terror

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee says Thursday's hearing on Islamic radicalism could be used by terrorists...

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Terror Hearing In Congress Begins Amid Heightened Security

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Extra security will accompany a New York congressman as he chairs a hearing focused on the U.S. Muslim community and its willingness to ...

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Peter King's Hearings Part of a Long, Ignoble Tradition

Tom Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

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To this day, Peter King continues to describe the IRA as "a legitimate force" fighting British repression, which rather begs the question of how he views Hamas or Fatah.

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Muslim Americans Denounce Peter King's 'Demonization' Of Islamic Community

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.26.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Members of the Muslim community on Wednesday denounced hearings scheduled by Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y) on the radicalization of American M...

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Muslim Superheroes And The House Radicalization Hearings

Shahid Mahmood | Posted 05.25.2011

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Batman's recent choice of a new partner, Nightrunner, an Algerian Muslim living in Paris, has become a source of torment for many right-wing bloggers.

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Peter King: Hearings On Muslims In America Will Be Fair

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 05.26.2011

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WASHINGTON — Family members of two young men who were inspired to terrorism, with deadly consequences, plan to tell Congress that the men were v...

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